extract: do not delete existing directory if possible, fixes #4233 #9288
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A pre-existing directory might be a btrfs subvolume that was created by the user ahead of time when restoring several nested subvolumes from a single archive.
If the archive item to be extracted is a directory and there is already a directory at the destination path, do not remove (and recreate) it, but just use it.
That way, btrfs subvolumes (which look like directories) are not deleted.
Fix originally contributed by @intelfx in #7866, but needed more work, so I thought more about the implications and added a test.
Note:
In the past, we first removed (empty) directories, then created a fresh one, then called restore_attrs for that. That produced correct metadata, but only for the case of an EMPTY exisiting directory. If the existing directory was not empty, the simply os.rmdir we tried did not work anyway and did not remove the existing directory.
Usually we extract to an empty base directory, thus encountering this edge case is mostly limited to continuing a previous extraction. In that case, calling restore_attrs again on a directory that already has existing attrs should be harmless, because they are identical.